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Potentially you could have a set of focused mage sight questions, like 'is it supernal?' 'which arcanum/Arcana is it most associated with?' and some more... Hmm all the surface and deep infoisted seems a bit anemic to me.
Power level of the creator?
Spell factors used?
Signature nimbus of the creator?
What practice created the effect?
And
How old the mystery was...
Any of those would be valid question, but half the time you don't care about most of them.
Like sure, sometimes you want to know the Nimbus of the creator, because you know it was anawakened spell and what it did... So the only question you really want to know is who did it.
Other times you are investigating a mystery - you could want to understand what a changeling is doing when they harvest glamour (and potentially don't have long to catch them in the act to study it) - this is what i think makes a good mystery, Mages shouldn't by default know what the frak is going on
But they do have the potential - if the ask the right questions, in my system, or if they roll well in the standard system - to figure out how to replicate a mysterious thing (with the right Arcana). Which is potentially very rewarding - and not just in fulfilling Obsessions.
I think it is hard to write a prescriptive set of questions for those kinds of mysteries. But a few basics like 'which arcanum and/or practice does this most closely resemble?' does look like a good place to start for most mysteries.
Power level of the creator?
Spell factors used?
Signature nimbus of the creator?
What practice created the effect?
And
How old the mystery was...
Any of those would be valid question, but half the time you don't care about most of them.
Like sure, sometimes you want to know the Nimbus of the creator, because you know it was anawakened spell and what it did... So the only question you really want to know is who did it.
Other times you are investigating a mystery - you could want to understand what a changeling is doing when they harvest glamour (and potentially don't have long to catch them in the act to study it) - this is what i think makes a good mystery, Mages shouldn't by default know what the frak is going on
But they do have the potential - if the ask the right questions, in my system, or if they roll well in the standard system - to figure out how to replicate a mysterious thing (with the right Arcana). Which is potentially very rewarding - and not just in fulfilling Obsessions.
I think it is hard to write a prescriptive set of questions for those kinds of mysteries. But a few basics like 'which arcanum and/or practice does this most closely resemble?' does look like a good place to start for most mysteries.
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